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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Calvin Scott who wrote (19798)7/11/2001 1:53:42 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 62554
 
Librarian woes:

It was bound to happen
sometime. One of our
patrons walked off last night
with all the track balls for
the mice in his pocket. I
don't know why. I mean, it's
not as if you really use them
for all that much.... or you
have six or seven ball-less
mice around your house
that you would require to
steal the library's supply. I'm
told that middle-schoolers
love this "game." But I'm
tasked with the job to
replace them.

Fortunately, we have some
old mice that we can't use
on the new computers
(different type of connection)
so I cannibalized them for
their balls. (Are they unuchs
now? UNIX mice?) But I just
know we're going to need
more. It's off to the supply
catalogs.

Not a single supply
company sells these
things. I guess they want to
make money selling the
whole mouse. But with the
demand (I assume) from
schools, libraries, and other
public facilities, someone
must have hit on the idea to
sell them, right?

I hesitate to do it, but I'm not
left with much choice... Ever
enter a search engine query
over the internet for "mouse
balls?"
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